The first release of the guylhem rom has been uploaded to externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom

Installation is as simple as promised, but it's a hackers only preliminary, as it's full textmode, you need to put qtopia on a SD, and the Fn/A keys have been inverted for qtopia. Yet I though it was overdue, and that's still a good working base.

You will get: - my latest fast kernel with squashfs - root in r/w mode with a cleaned filesystem - a single root partition - 58 Mb - only 12 Mb used, so you can install pdaxrom or whatever you want (say sharp qtopia-1.5 :-) - the new keyboard scheme to make internal and external keyboard work together.

Get the nandbackup and qtopia-1.5.tgz, then follow the instructions in README. Don't untar qtopia-1.5 in the flash - put it on a SD, since it's quite big : there's every application I have on my zaurus.

Attention : until the keyboard is fixed, I had to invert key "A" and "fn" in Qtopia 1.5 because someone hardcoded fn keycode value into qtopia binary libs :-( I'm working on a fix but it's not ready yet. Don't complain - there's nothing I can do yet.

The next release will be identical to that one except it will have the keyboard stuff fixed (hopefully !) and it will ship with a minimal qtopia 1.5 in flash.

I'm interested in any feedback - I will create a dedicated page and forum on externe.net which was attacked last week :-(

If you are satisfied or want to help, donation to paypal@externe.net or technical help is welcome. I'd be especially interested if someone could purchase a 128 Mb flash chip (the various company I've contacted won't export to France and won't sell a single chip either) to try some hardware upgrade on the 6000

PS: could someone who still has qtopia-2.1 flashed it make a tarball of it? I'm having problems with the initrd.bin from qtopia.net and I don't feel like reflashing again and again- I'd rather use that time to work on new cool stuff.

1. Put syst0006.dbk on a compact flash2. Open a console, type "sync ; reboot"3. When you see sharp logo at reboot, simultaneously press on D and Mbutton, then without releasing D and M, press reset on the back of yourZaurus, then without releasing D and M, press power button4. You will be rebooting into "Diagnostic Mode". Press on right buttonuntil you see "Nand Restore" then press ok ok5. Go and take a coffee.6. When it's done it will say "Restore... OK" and the bottom bar willbe green - you can now reset.7. You will reboot in command line mode. Type "root" to log it.Shift + Power will scroll up, Shift + Rec will scroll down.A long press on Record will open a new login shell if needed.8. You need a Qtopia in /mnt/card/ (that's because this version lets youchoose between Qtopia 1.5 and 2.1) : simply pick up which one you wantand uncompress it in your SD card formatted in ext2. If you want to put it inyour CF instead, change the symlinks from /opt and /home to/mnt/cf/QtPalmtop

This is the first and experimental release, therefore no Qtopia wasselected for you.

2. If you want to do that again at home#######################################

Read tweaking-parts.txt, create-jffs2-initrd.sh ; create your ownzImage1 and initrd1, put them on a Compact Flash and use updater.sh

In the next version, the application keys will be used to change betweenvirtual consoles, along with other small modifications.